We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"If an employee tries to get or move a file that is not permitted to them - for example if he wants to copy it to a USB - he will not have the right to do that, because Barracuda manages who has the right to copy, and what you copy to a USB. The USB is encrypted with a specific code from Barracuda and will only be decrypted into any other laptop in the company if they allow it to see it."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Most people are using enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit on that. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"The solution is scalable."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"The most valuable feature is the price. I've been requesting prices all over these years between different solutions like Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point and Sophos has been the cheapest and the best of all of them that I have tried. I have been working with Fortinet, it's a fact that the price is surprisingly better."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"If you have another brand of VPN where you have to put an SSL VPN between two devices, Barracuda doesn't support that at a certain point. You can't actually build the VPN between Barracuda and a different device of a different brand."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The analytics are weak."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"With Sophos UTM, there is a general rule in the firewall when the country blocking can block some countries from accessing your data. In the current version, you still need to add it by putting in the IP range. This feature would be helpful for administrators and it gives them the advantage to block stuff in less time."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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